Explainer No, Nigeria has not sold its minerals to America By Nkanu Egbe The “$700bn minerals deal” with Washington commits no money, transfers no ownership and has no projects attached. What it does do — and what it leaves unanswered — deserves closer scrutiny than the headlines have given it. Within hours of the announcement, Read More…
Explainer · Power The Power Plant Next Door: What Victoria Island’s New Grid Means for the Balogun Family, and for the Rest of Lagos A 40MW private power network is coming to Victoria Island. It will change how Cynthia Balogun’s bank keeps its lights on. Whether it reaches her own home a few streets away, Read More…
Special Report · Lagos From Ojuelegba Bridge to the Ballot Box Every Lagos motorist knows the tax no law imposes. As 2027 approaches, the men who collect it may be readying for a bigger job. By Nkanu Egbe · September 2026 The flood on Herbert Macaulay Road had risen to the windows. I had just Read More…
Explainer & Analysis King’s College and the Unity Schools Crisis: What’s Really Being Sold — and What Should Replace It By Nkanu Egbe More than a hundred federal schools have not resumed for a new academic session, and the reason has nothing to do with insecurity or examination timetables. It has to do with one Read More…
The inheritance: what Hamzat takes on from seven years of THEMES+ By Nkanu Egbe, Editor Dr Obafemi Hamzat is no longer simply Lagos’s deputy governor. Since winning the APC’s governorship primary in May 2026 with 657,917 votes — against a single vote for his nearest rival — and being formally presented by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Read More…
The arithmetic of exile: Why Lagosians are fleeing to the edge of the map Lagos’s rent shock has not made housing cheaper. It has exported the problem to Epe, Ikorodu, Badagry, and across the state line into Ogun — where land is affordable and almost nothing else is ready for the people arriving on it. Read More…
2027: The arithmetic election — Inside Nigeria’s fractured race for Aso Rock The opposition’s math has never really been the problem. Assembling the opposition has. By Nkanu EgbeLagos Metropolitan In February 2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the Nigerian presidency with 36.61 per cent of the vote — one of the thinnest mandates in the country’s Read More…
Uber left. What if Lagos owned the next one? By Nkanu Egbe · Lagos Metropolitan Uber’s exit after twelve years exposes the fragility of FDI-led growth — and reopens a bigger question about whether Nigeria’s real economic engine, its cooperatives and micro-enterprises, has the institutions it needs to convert scale into resilience. If Uber can Read More…
World / Hip-Hop Case File: Homicide — Reopened 2023 — Closed Aug 31, 2026 “Duane “Keffe D” Davis Killed Tupac Shakur!”— JURY, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Verdict: Guilty A Las Vegas jury has convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis of orchestrating the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, closing one of hip-hop’s most notorious cold cases. For a Read More…
Lagos State, Nigeria Vol. I · Environment & Infrastructure Filed August 29, 2026 A data briefing on solid waste, 1977–2026 THE LAGOSWASTE RECKONING Forty years ago Lagos’s first civilian government built a genuinely modern waste utility — then lost it to an oil crash and a coup. Today’s enforcement drive is the same fix, tried Read More…